 Persistence length (source code)

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= Persistence length
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The <persistence length> is the decay <length> of tangent correlations. A common three-dimensional convention is $L_p=A/(k_BT)$; a strictly planar chain has tangent-correlation <length> $2A/(k_BT)$.

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